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01.12.09.

Introducing Hinduism and Shakespeare - full covers revealed!

Icon's Introducing publishing programme in 2010 kicks off with two fantastic - if very different - titles.

Nick Groom and Piero's Introducing Shakespeare is a hugely innovative guide not just to the Bard and his plays but explores how Shakespeare has been used around the world to all sorts of ends. Shakespeare is still the battleground on which our very comprehension of what it means to be human is being fought out.

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Introducing Hinduism by Vinay Lal and Borin van Loon attempts to answer the many contradictions that seem to lie at the heart of the world's oldest religion. For instance, it is defined as polytheistic, but Gandhi declared that a Hindu needn’t believe in any god. It is a religion as much of myth as of history – it has no founder, no single authoritative book, even few central doctrines. Why do Hindus revere the cow? Must Hindus be vegetarian? All the answers and more are here.

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And here, revealed to the public for the very first time, are the full covers in all their glory: